DBMS > Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

High performance Time Series DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

kx.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

code.kx.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Esgyn

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2005

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.6, May 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

with views

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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